Nicola Frangione
[ Italy ]
performance
'Uptopia Concreta'
Sat 1st April 2006
18.00
installation exhibition
[view by appointment]
2nd - 29th April 2006

Nicola Frangione's sound poetry and concerts are oriented towards what some artists define as "art dramaturgy".
Gestures as a key form of expression are a distinguishing feature of his work. On the one hand, his vocality takes an active part in the performances of the body, playing the same role as the other linguistic elements; on the other, it stands out thoroughly, in a sound-focused dimension connected with both texts and music according to interdisciplinary approaches, harmonizing with the main orientation of "sound poetry", which is the name for half a century¹s practice and pragmatic observation.

Frangione was born in Forenza, Italy, in 1953. He has been living and working in Monza since 1972, as an interdisciplinary artist experimenting with several techniques: visual arts, publishing graphic arts, music and sound poetry, video and theatre production, visual poetry and mail art. As well as being concerned with visual poetry, he is among the main mail artists in Italy. For about 20 years he has been playing a role in developing and spreading this art in Italy, carrying out
projects and organizing itinerant exhibitions and workshops.

He has published and produced several art books and is director of "ART ACTION" International Festival Performance Art in Monza.

"Falling on the threshold to remember everything, being frightened within to remember everything, watering the grass of the single interval, dissolving the sweet taste of the insect on the tree. Looking beyond to remember nothing."